Royal Borough residents can now earn Greenredeem points for taking part in online quizzes on environmentally friendly ways to travel and by pledging to do certain things related to walking, cycling and using public transport.

With most of the country experiencing unusually warm weather for March, the Bracknell Forest Community Safety Partnership is reminding people to take extra care to avoid the risk of fire outdoors. Every year, fire destroys thousands of acres of countryside and wildlife habitats, some of which are started deliberately but many are caused by carelessness. […]

Drivers are advised that there will be closures in place on the London Road side of the Met Office roundabout for two weeks starting Sunday, April 1. Traffic driving around the roundabout will be diverted along the London Road (eastbound) to the Eastern Road roundabout and then back along the London Road (westbound). The closure […]

Click on www.bracknell-forest.gov.uk from Monday, April 2, and the new look Bracknell Forest Council website will be unveiled. Some of the key improvements visitors will notice include: * rapid access to the most popular services; * information is easier to find and understand; * a greatly improved search facility; * more images to make […]

Spaces are still available for a conference for residents who want to know more about future planning for their future. The conference is free of charge for residents of Bracknell Forest. The conference, titled 'Opportunities and choices in later life', will be held on Friday, March 30, at Easthampstead Baptist Church from 10am until 4pm. […]

Last autumn, The Look Out Discovery Centre ran a competition on their Facebook page for a school class to win a free trip to the site. Details of the competition were sent to hundreds of schools in and around Berkshire, giving them the chance for a class of 30 to visit the centre. Lina Haines […]

Sustaining economic prosperity in the borough was at the top of the agenda at last week’s meeting of the Bracknell Forest Economic and Skills Development Partnership (ESDP). The partnership – which comprises of representatives from local firms including 3M, Waitrose, Bracknell Regeneration Partnership and Bracknell Forest Council – met on Tuesday, March 13. Led by […]

According to Dominic Kitchin of The Science of Buying, the key to this is to remember that humans are tribal. We have that innate desire to belong to something. Although we no longer live in isolated tribes it doesn’t mean we aren’t tribal. Today, in the West, we create an identity for ourselves through the […]

International Women’s Day was first observed in 1908 and is a day to celebrate women’s achievements, inspire women and renew the struggle for equal rights around the world. Although I am not one to knock the impact of this day as a day to celebrate my own gender, it is however only one day in […]

The Festival, launched last night by HRH The Duke of Cambridge, is a unique partnership between the UK government and private sector to create jobs and growth by supporting UK companies looking to break into fast growing Chinese markets. In total, the Festival is expected to bring in £150m to the UK economy over the […]